The Fivepenny Piece

The Fivepenny Piece were a five-piece band, originally formed in 1967 in the area of East Lancashire around Ashton-under-Lyne and nearby Stalybridge in Tameside. The band met and performed on Wednesday nights at Ashton's Broadoak Hotel, which gave them their original name The Wednesday Folk.
Their break came when they entered and won the Granada Television talent show New Faces in 1968 (not to be confused with ATV talent show New Faces which didn't begin until 1973), which led... meer